We are here!

   Our team left the OKC airport at 1:40pm on June 13th and we arrived at 3:00 pm today (June 14th). We had a delayed flight while at DFW in Dallas, because of this, we only had an hour between connecting flights while in Sao Paulo.We are all thankful we were able to make it through customs and immigration in time to catch our flight. It truly was a blessing Bob, Donna, and Lauren all noticed the lines were moving along more quickly than they had seen in the past.
   

       We were greeted warmly by two of our missionaries, Cris Carpenter and Roberto Signoretti, at the airport here in Natal. Upon arriving at the church we met the rest of our host missionaries Osmildo and Marta Braga and Roberto's wife, Marisa. We were also able to meet up with Nicole and Kalie who are a part of the remaining LST team from Michigan.They have been so helpful in getting us settled into our apartment, and bringing us up to speed on the work LST has been doing here.

      Tonight we were able to meet one of the church members here, Jefferson, who started attending because of a friend who was reading with LST. He went along with us to the mall while we exchanged money, ate dinner and  purchased groceries. He speaks very good English and was so helpful while Melanie and Lauren were trying to communicate in Portuguese.

Bob and Donna contacting our host site about delays

Lauren and Jefferson on the apartment balcony 

Melanie excited about her first trip out of country!